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and co-
duties.
6.
Together
with these and
by
other testimonies from those most
competent to judge of the
my
success of adumistration of the internal
affairs of Hongkong,
I have also
received from the Admiral and~
on this Station
General Commanding -warm acknowledquents of
of my
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Friendly with them. I have further received from Her Majesty's Ministers in China and Japan their cordial thanks for the constant support-
and harmonious relations
and
operation afforded to them me, as the Governor of this antre of British power, influores, and Commerce in the Far East; which
co-operation they convicter to have been of great importance to the Queen's
Lof
service, and to the advancement
British interests in this quarter of the
globe.
7.
I have
completed
twenty-six (26) years of co-
service as
1 of continuous
the Governor of five Colonies
successively, viz : Queensland; · Now Zealand, Cictoria, Maurition,
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